FAIRFAX, Va. (AP) – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton is praising the Supreme Court’s ruling declaring that same-sex couples have a right to marry, but she says the fight for equal rights is far from over.
Speaking at a Democratic Party dinner in Virginia on Friday night, Clinton equated the gay marriage decision with the decision striking down bans on interracial marriage.
Clinton says that “love triumphed in the highest court” in the land, adding that “fear and hatred are far from finished.”
She vows to fight discrimination against lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, saying Republicans are “determined to lead us right back into the past.”
Clinton’s speech in Fairfax is the first stop of her presidential campaign in Virginia, a state likely to be closely contested in the 2016 election.